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An artillery onslaught by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 13 radical successful a mosque wherever displaced families were sheltering successful the besieged metropolis of El-Fasher, 2 eyewitnesses told AFP on Thursday (October 9, 2025).
The onslaught connected the mosque came from the north, some sources said connected information of anonymity, wherever the RSF has overrun the Abu Shouk displacement campy and acceptable up positions successful an effort to wrest power of the metropolis from the Sudanese Army.
“After the shelling successful the afternoon, we pulled 13 bodies from nether the rubble and buried them,” 1 antheral who lives successful the country said of the onslaught which occurred Wednesday (October 8, 2025).
A subsister of the onslaught said, “We were 70 families wrong the mosque’s walls aft the Rapid Support Forces entered our homes. Yesterday, artillery shells fell, sidesplitting 13 of us, wounding 20, and destroying portion of the mosque.”
The RSF’s existent battle connected El-Fasher is its fiercest since the warfare began with the Army successful April 2023.
The North Darfur authorities capital, besieged by the RSF since May of past year, is the past large metropolis inactive nether Army control, though the territory controlled by the subject and its allies has progressively shrunk.
The RSF has launched near-daily artillery and drone strikes and overrun the displacement camps surrounding the city, reportedly sidesplitting hundreds and extorting survivors for harmless passage.
Millions displaced
Between Tuesday (October 7, 2025) and Wednesday (October 8, 2025), 20 radical were killed successful RSF strikes connected El-Fasher Hospital, 1 of the past functioning wellness facilities successful the city.
Last month, astatine slightest 75 radical were killed successful a azygous drone onslaught connected a mosque.
Across Sudan, the warfare has displaced millions and pushed astir 25 cardinal into acute hunger, creating what the United Nations says are the world's largest hunger and displacement crises.
It has besides killed tens of thousands of people, but determination is nary authoritative toll, with astir of the wounded incapable to entree hospitals and survivors forced to hide their dormant wherever they can.
The RSF’s siege connected El-Fasher has caused wide starvation successful the city, wherever families person for months survived connected carnal feed, but adjacent that has grown scarce and present costs hundreds of dollars per sack.
If the metropolis falls to the paramilitaries, the RSF volition beryllium successful power of the full Darfur region, wherever they person sought to found a rival administration.
The Army holds the country’s north, centre and east.
